Name: Bronze
Brand: Hen Ogledd

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ST1041CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Remastered and Housed in Mini LP Sleeve.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-01-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0781484104124


Total Cap

1 / CD

Artist

Hen Ogledd

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Streamline

Hen Ogledd is a collaborative project consisting of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson, and Sally Pilkington. Together, they create unique and captivating music that defies genre boundaries.
Their sound can be described as a fusion of experimental folk, electronic elements, and mesmerizing vocals. Drawing inspiration from various musical traditions and incorporating innovative techniques, Hen Ogledd's music takes listeners on a sonic journey like no other.
With each member bringing their own distinct style and expertise to the table, Hen Ogledd has gained recognition for their thought-provoking lyrics and intricate compositions. Their live performances are known for their energy and raw emotion - an experience not to be missed.

Originally formed as Dawson:Davies: Hen Ogledd by avant folk savant Richard Dawson and improv harp pioneer Rhodri Davies, now they’ve dropped the surnames and become a trio with the addition of Dawn Bothwell, who also performs altered electronic torch songs as Pentecostal Party. It’s been a transformative move, Dawson playing guitar, iPad and a panoply of table top knick knacks, Rhodri cleaving new spaces open with his blazing harp splutterations, with Bothwell’s sweet and sour voice and electronics taking the three of them down unexplored avenues littered with hypnotic diversions and long moments of delirium.

Made over a day and night in the mid-winter 2016, Bronze was recorded in the space of the former Star and Shadow Cinema. Hollow, cavernous and stripped back to its bare bones the dilapidated building-shell still vibrating with the near and distant sounds of crucial Newcastle expression.

Dawson, Davies and Bothwell are joined from afar by medieval traveller/ virtuoso Laura Cannell on double recorders and New Zealand free-jazz heavyweight Jeff Henderson on blink-and-you'll-miss-it Timpani, on this glistening and sinewy record.... A heady and funny-tasting punch of early 90's synth, dark-ages thumping, space boogie, wild plays and vocal delays, electric crow song, utter nothingness and folkish mumblings. A carnivorous shredding of the old and ethereal reach to new beginnings.

The Wire described their sound as “a terrific circular musical tug of war…ravishing gravel melodies, higgledy-piggledy rhythms and thick, burbling textures”. It doesn't really make any sense but it goes inside and does good things to the walls of your house.

Bronze

Music GB